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122° 40’ 18.715” W 23 alumni
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Lauren
Platzker

illustration
design
character illustration
risograph
bunny
book design
childhood
screen print
animation

Lauren sits in dramatic lighting, laughing at the camera holding a black and white pet bunny

Lauren Platzker is a Jewish American designer and illustrator born and raised in California's Bay Area. The synergy between their design and illustration practices creates a unique and versatile body of work expanding into many different platforms and mediums. Lauren works with their playful imagination and inspirations from movements like New Wave and Memphis to create bold, shape-based visuals, and narrative designs that evoke nostalgia and joy. When not making, Lauren can be seen feeding raisins to their pet bunny/best friend Colombo. Say hi at lplatzker@gmail.com.

Lauren sits in dramatic lighting, laughing at the camera holding a black and white pet bunny
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Lauren sits in dramatic lighting gazing to the upper right hugging a pet black and white bunny
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Lauren sits in dramatic lighting snuggling a pet black and white bunny to shoulder
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Lauren stands in dramatic lighting smiling at camera with hands cupping face
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 Four illustrations of different colored peace signs in a field of small yellow flowers

What do you geek out about?

Lauren: Bunny rabbit facts.

What is one thing you want to learn right now?

Lauren: Letterpress. Or how to ride a skateboard.

What advice would you give your past self?

Lauren: Keep practicing piano.

What do you collect? Or, What are you obsessed with?

Lauren: Pokémon Cards.

Sweet or salty? Cake or pie? Coffee/tea?

Lauren: TEA. If I could live off of tea I would.

Textured landscape oriented illustration of a red fox running, blue scribble lines and blue fire shapes in the background Poster design of blue wave link lined pattern with heavy blue outline, and golden fill in a small highlighted portion of the linework. Expressive hand drawn text reads 'Kugel?' Illustrated blue peace sign sitting at a desk in front of laptop talking into a headset Illustrated blue peace sign sitting in the grass holding a phone with text and email and hear icons swirling around Graphic designed iphone screen displaying an app design showing four peace signs in a field, text reads 'community' with additional app text about in-person events below image Graphic computer screen displaying a web design. Left of screen shows peace signs reading at a desk and peace signs below holding heart, right side of screen shows web page components, text 'educate' and 'support a mental health cause' Black Monochromatic newsprint poster design with heavily saturated portrait, heavy font text reads 'Hassan Rahim' Black Monochromatic newsprint poster design with heavy font text reads 'Hassan Rahim' at top, with news print text below and saturated black spot images Blue monochromatic newsprint poster on pink newsprint with japanese lettering and graphic symbols of a woman’s face. Text below reads '1950-1970' Blue monochromatic newsprint poster on pink newsprint with three columns of fine print. Bold heading at top reads 'DEZAIN', graphic images below show waves, a Tokyo olympic 1964 poster and a round sphere with waves Graphic poster design of a red ACG show with topographical green lines overlaid, and a monochromatic saturated blue image of man hiking in the background. Nike swoosh symbol at bottom left Lauren holds up a large throw quilt with an illustrated pattern of four stacked rabbits and flowers Lauren holds up a large throw quilt with an illustrated pattern of one large white rabbit and flowers Two stacked folded quilts with packaging design, reads 'OREM' with bunny logo and flower pattern

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